Toy boat



June 2,

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ATTORNEYS A. KLEINOHLE June 2, 1925.

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UNITED STATES P A TlE-NT AUGUST KLEINOHLL, F NEN ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

TOY BOAT.

Application filed September 3, 1924. Serial No. 735,699.

To all wit-0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, Aucns'r Knnrnoi'nm, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Boats, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to improvements in toy boats, and more particularly to a toy boat of that nature adapted to run under its own power, my invention contemplating the provision of a spring power boat so constructed that it will pro ceed for considerable distances, may be readily assembled and disassembled for various purposes including packing for transportation, and furthermoreone wherein the steering apparatus may be set so that the boat will proceed in either a straight line or various curves to form small or large circles as desired. v

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate my present invention and form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side view, I

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section taken centrally therethrough, and

Figure 3 is a detail top plan view of the rudder control connections.

Referring now to these figures my invention contemplates a toy boat, the hull of which is formed of sheet metal of lightgauge and reinforced by transversely dis posed rods 11 which, in addition to their function of preventing outward bulging of the sides of the boat also serve as deck su pports, the forward sectlon 12 of the deck seating on the center and forward transverse rods 11 and the rear deck section 1 3 seating on the rear transverse rod 11.

The upper edges of the hull sides have spaced pairs of slits fern-ling between them tongues 14: which when the forward section of the deck 12 is seated on its supporting rods 11, are turned inwardly and downwardly as plainly seen by a comparison 0fTF igures 1 and 2 so as to hold the forward deck section 11 in place and it will be noted that the deck sections 12 and 13 are spaced apart forming an opening upwardly through which the motor frame 15 projects. Below this space between the front and rear deck sections the hull is provided on its bottom with brackets 16 securely holding a base block 17 to which the motor frame 15 is detach-ably connected by clips 18, the latter" screwed to the block 17 in practice so that upon removal of these clips theentire motor and motor f-ltIIlGlHttY he lifted out of the. hull for repair or substitution of parts.

The front deck section 12 may also have up,- right members 19 -a1.1d.20 ,the former representative of a smoke stack and the latter representative of a pilot house or conning tower and further einbel lii hrnents may of course be added for ornaaental purposes while the rear deck section 13 seats around the upper end of a verticallydisposed bearing tu-be 21 for the upright stem 22 of thezru-dder 7O 23 which is secured upon the lower end of this stem. Upon the upper end of the :stem a toothed wheel 24 is keyed and detachably held by a set-collar 25., the rear deck section having thereon a. bracket 26 forwardly vof the bearing tube 21 in which a vertical screw .27 is rotatable is held against vertical movement. In'the bracket a rearwardly projecting controlling arm 28'is nonrotatably supported and provided at its rear end with a U-shaped guard 29, the edges of which are adapted for engagement in the teeth of the rudder stem wheel 24. The for-- ward portion of the arm 28 abuts a portion of the bracket 26 and has athreaded opening to receive the adjusting screw 27. This ad justing screw has an upper mil-led wheel 30 and it is obvi ousthat by rotating this wheel in one direction the arm 28 will be shifted downwardly until its guard 29 is below the rudder stem wheel 24:. The iruddcr stern may then be rotated to a desired set position and locked in this position by rotating the screw 27 in the reverse direction to elevate the arm 28 and again engage the -guard 29 with the toothed wheel 24. i

The motor supported by the frame 1 5 includes a. spring 31 one end of which anchored to the frame and the other end to a winding shaft 32-which may in practice have a key 33 at one end as seen in Figure 1 in order that the spring may be readily rewound. This shaft 32"has a ratchet wheel engaged by the pawl or -dog35 of a Jlauge gear 36 forming part of a gear train ineluding gears 37 and 38, the latter on a shaft 39 which extends transversely across the hull above the decks and beyond the sides of the. hull in order to support paddle wheels 40. These paddle wheels have radial side paddles 4:1 and are detachably connected to the ends of the shaft 39 by means of set screws 42 as seen in Figure 1 so that it thus becomes obvious that by detaching the paddle wheels 40 and then releasing the motor frame clips 18 the motor frame as well as the shaft 39 may be removed from the hull.

In use the space between the front and rear deck sections 12 and 13, as well as the motor and its frame, are covered by a motor housing 43 whose'forward portion rests upon the rear of the forward deck section 12 and whose rear rests upon the forward portion of the rear deck section 13, the front and rear walls of this housing 43having openings 44 to ieceive the upper angular ends of upright hook members 45 secured at their lower ends to the rear portion of the forward deck section 12 and the forward portion of the 7 rear deck section 13, said upright hook mem bers being flexible to a sufficient extent so that their upper angular ends may be pulled out of the housing apertures 44 in order to release the housing 43 and permit the latter to be removed.

It is thus obvious that my invention presents a toy boat which will 'be highly amusing and peculiarly effective as a toy, which may be easily regulated so as to either travel in a straight line or in large or small circles, as well as one which will be comparatively simple and inexpensive, may be readily assembled and disassembled, and is capable of easy repair and substitution of parts owing to the small number of movable elements and the ready accessibility thereof.

It is also obvious that my invention provides a toy boat, the parts of which are capable of transportation in knocked down or separated condition facilitating the packing thereof in the first place and may without trouble beassembled and placed in operative relation.

I claim:

1. A toy boat including a hull of hollow form having inner transverse rods ireinforcing the hull and also forming deck supports, a deck in spaced apart front and rear sections supported on said rods, side paddle wheels, a motor and motor frame disposed within the hull and projecting upwardly between the deck sections, a shaft. for the paddle wheels supported by said motor frame and n operative connection with the motor, and a housing for the motor seated over the same and also forming a cover for the space between the deck sections.

2. A toy boat including a hull of hollow and rear walls, and flexible upstanding rods secured to the deck sections and having upper angular ends shiftable into the apertures of the housing to hold the latter detacha'bly in place.

3. A toy boat having a hollow hull provided with inner transverse reinforcing rods, forward and rear deck sections seated on said rods and detachably held in place, the upper edges of the hull sides being slit at its forward portion to provide tongues extending inwardly over the forward deck section to det-achably hold the latter in place, a motor and motor frame within the hull extending upwardly between said deck sections, side paddle wheels, a shaft for the paddle wheels supported by the motor frame and in operative connection with the motor, and a housing for the motor detachably connected to the front and reardeck sections as described.

4. A toy boat including a hull having a rear rudder provided with an upright stem journaled through the hull, a toothed wheel detachably connecting the upper portion of the stem, a guard in engagement with the toothed wheel to hold the rudder in selected position, an arm supporting the guard, and means for shifting the said arm vertically to move the guard into and out of engagement with the toothed wheel.

5. A toy boat including a hull having a rear rudder provided with an upright stem journaled through the hull, a toothed wheel detachably connecting the upper portion of the stem, a guard in engagement with the toothed wheel to hold the rudder in selected position, an arm supporting the guard, a supporting bracket in which the guard arm is vertically shiftable, and a vertical adj ustingscrew in the bracket, threaded through a portion of the arm and rotatable to shift the arm vertically and move the guard into and out of engagement with the toothed wheel.

' AUGUST KLEINOHLE. 

